Adobe Premier + mpeg plugins

[keithm]

I'm hoping someone can answer this for me. I've started playing with Adobe Premier 5.1 and I like it, the effects are certainly better than Ulead in quality.

I would like to output to mpeg2 but Premier doesn't do this: does any one know a free way to do this (without saving the file and externally converting with tmpenc).

Or: just what does work as a plugin for premier.

[Peter B]

Cinemacraft have a plug in that works with Premiere but it is NOT cheap.

I think the Pansonic Mpeg1 encoder works with Premeire as well, and Ligos has one maybe.

If you are not in a hurry, BBMpeg is free, designed to work with early versions of Premiere and excellent quality but very slow.

Also the latest version of Premiere (6.5) comes with an Mpeg encoder from Mainconcept, they may supply that for older versions as well?

[Adis]

Premiere 6.5 have integrated Adobe MPEG Encoder powered by Main Concept. It's good and fast.

For older Premiere versions you can use Ligos MPEG Plug-In. It's also very good and fast.

[Sahib]

I'm using LSX-Mpeg Suite 2.0 (Ligos)... it has also a plugin that enables exporting a film directly from premiere's timeline in mpeg 1&2 formats...

[Dr Mordrid]

In Premiere I've been avoiding embedded MPEG encoders because the rendering times are excessive vs. external encoders because of internal issues with Premiere itself (it's rendering engine is SLOW AS MUD!!).

To encode the Premiere timeline a bit faster I use the VideoTools.net VideoServer plugin, which is a frameserver. With it you can frameserve any external encoder that can load an *.avi. This list includes CCE, TMPGEnc Plus, Ligos or the MainConcept external encoder. You can even frameserve WME.

You just export using the VideoServer option, at which time VS lays down a proxy *.avi (IPCServer.avi). You load this into the encoder of your choice, set it up and go have coffee.

Dr. Mordrid

[Sciascia]

I agree, I just bought the videotools frameserver plugin for Ulead MSP and it is very nice. The embedded encoders just aren't as good as a standalone and they are no where near as flexible.

If you wanted to get real fancy, you could use the frameserver, then feed it to an app like Virtual dub, filter it some more and then frameserve that to your encoder. Of course it may not work, I have yet to try to have 2 frameservers running at once. But for noisy video it may work. Sad part is that it would still be faster than most Premiere encoders.

[Dr Mordrid]

I've tried daisy-chaining. It works, but looks real weird 'til you get used to it

Dr. Mordrid